FRANCE - May 15, 2016

International Meeting convened by Nuit Debout

Correspondents of the newspaper "The International Worker Organizer ", delegates sent by the "International Network" and spokespersons for the Committee in solidarity with Syria in Brazil addressed the audience in the Republic Square before thousands of Paris students and workers

 

As envoys of the "International Network for the Freedom of the political prisoners of the world and justice for our martyrs" and the Committee for Syria - Sao Paulo, Brazil, we spoke before the General Assembly of the Global Nuit Debout. 
We wanted there to express the voice of the exploited of the colonies and semi-colonial plundered by imperialist gangs vying for the riches of oppressed peoples.

As we have been raising in that square since we arrived in France on May 6, we also denounced in this General Assembly that in prisons of the Greek big bankers and ship-owners the best, the most courageous and combative of Greek youth lie prisoner. We had to tell the truth: their jailers are that left rubbish, the smoke-vendors of Syriza.
In an “international day of fight” the prisoners and condemned for their fighting, as comrade Alfon in the Spanish State and the oil workers of Las Heras, Argentina could not be absent.
In the Square we had the opportunity of being with fellow of the Committee for the release of Georges Abdallah, who has spent 32 years a prisoner in the dungeons of the regime of the Fifth Republic for defending the Palestinian cause. It was really exciting to be able to physically meet with partners with which we have been fighting together for a long time for the release of political prisoners. This is so since December 12, 2013, date in which the Las Heras oil workers were condemned to life imprisonment and other terms of imprisonment respectively. That day comrade Georges Abdallah together with the Basque prisoners refused their food ration and starred a hunger strike in solidarity with comrades from Argentina, showing a huge example of international solidarity.

While in Paris, we could not but denounce that in that square and streets of France Hollande, the Merkel and Zionist State of Israel’s Netanyahu had walked while defending Paris Alliance with Tel Aviv, which oppresses the Palestinian nation and massacres its people. We do not forget this or that there it was said that the "enemy was the ISIS", when Hollande, Obama and Dog Bashar are its commanders.
We were talking with thousands and thousands of students and workers and telling the truth: that there is no largest terrorist on the planet that imperialism that supports genocidal Al - Assad and in particular French imperialism, which sells technology to Putin so that with his army he massacres in the Caucasus, in "Great Russia" and directly also in Syria where he is bombing recklessly wholly unarmed children, women and families.
It was necessary to say that Hollande’s agreement with Zionism is a deal between counter-revolutionary butchers to slaughter in Maghreb and the Middle East.

Days prior to our arrival in Paris in this square that arose as an expression of the struggle of the working class and its March 31 general strike, Varoufakis, the "left wing" of Syriza, old Advisor to the CEOs of the City of London and former Minister of economy of Tsipras, had been present. That smoke-vendor left  - as the young Greek anarchists call them, and as we denounce in various correspondent records-- was there to try and change the content to that square so it transformed into a square of "citizens" to fight for "real democracy", and not a square of the working class and the youth, who today suffer one of the biggest attacks by the Government of Hollande that snatches them the 35-hour week by Decree.
Thus the fairy tale of "real democracy" has stripped which capitalists want to sell to European workers: their imperialist Governments only exude counter-revolutionary wars of colonialism, military bases around the world and attacks against the working-class of his own country as they do with the working class of peoples they oppress.

The lie of "real democracy" of the European social-imperialist left had very short legs in France: the Government of the "democracy" of the Fifth Republic started a brutal attack and declared a stark war up to the end against the French working class. The response was swift and two general strikes are called for Tuesday May 17 and Thursday May 19 respectively that posed and put on the agenda the most immediate task of the French proletariat which is defeating Hollande and the regime of the Fifth Republic.
On Wednesday May 12 an enormous mobilization had been staged, which was headed by a flag that declared "all “We are all vandals, we all break everything" in response to the war declared by Hollande and the capitalists.

For this reason we could see that this May 15 in Global Nuit Debout the lie undressed of "real democracy" and of "democratic" coexistence with the capitalist system and again in the Place de la Republique we began to breathe the fresh wind of the general strike and the fighting the French working class prepares.
On May 8 may, despite the fact that we had traveled thousands of miles to get there, we were not given the floor in the square. That day they went so far as to raffle the motions for resolutions of the various committees. They raffled what was to be read and what not, what constitutes an attack on any real direct democracy, which is the type of democracy the masses need to fight. But this May 15 we could finally speak, we and everyone who had anything to say in favor of the masses. After the attack by Hollande, the square vibrated again, while the French working class is getting ready for big fights.

In our statement there we could express the voice of the Syrian resistance, an indomitable resistance, which does not give in. We had a mandate of young people and workers fighting in Aleppo, Goutha, Homs, in all Syria... and who were just recovering the town of Kahn Al Touman. Their mandate was to make their voice heard -the voice of the revolution and of the heroic battles of the resistance against Dog Bashar.
We went there to say that it was necessary to break the siege, sending doctors, food, money, weapons and volunteers to fight alongside the Syrian resistance and paralyze the war machine of imperialism that supports the bloody hands of Putin and Al - Assad so they can slaughter the Syrian people, as well as it sustains Saudi Arabia invading Yemen and Zionism which is relaunching hard attacks on the Palestinian masses.

For days, we had discussed with hundreds of young people interested in the struggle of the Syrian masses. We find in the same square comrades working in committees in solidarity with Syria in France. We could make common actions with them. We could even fight alongside sectors of them against the pro-Assad groups, which are trying to sell Al-Assad as "anti-imperialist" to French workers and youth, though Al-Assad, supported by Obama, is the worst murder of the Syrian workers and peasants.

Throughout the week, from May 6 on, we were also explaining and struggling to make that voice of the Syrian resistance heard, so that the truth is told; and to break the fence around this great revolution, imposed on it by the left parties that are servants of European and world imperialism.
Our comrade of the International Network rose to speak at the square wrapped in the flag of the Syrian resistance to claim that the massacre is stopped because Syria is a warning by imperialism to the entire world working class that comes out to fight to defend their rights and interests.

We were waiting for this May 15. News reached us about how PODEMOS and Izquierda Unida in the Spanish State were trying once more to undermine the character of the revolutionary upheaval of the working class and youth started in 2011. 5 years ago the miners in Asturias shouted: "If our children are hungry, yours will shed blood" and "If this cannot be solved, war, war, war". We recalled, as we watched the committees of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East in Paris square, the slogan of the "Indignados" of the neighboring country which proclaimed: "Immigrants you are the sea of Madrid". Time ago that PODEMOS and Izquierda Unida have acknowledged the infamous Bourbon monarchy, whereas 5 years ago people raised the cry of "Republic of the Indignados" all across the Spanish State.

We could understand why so many forces had been concentrated to try and transform the feeling of the French youth that put up the Plaza of the Republic with the cry of "We must combat as in Egypt, as in Tahrir square". But the French working class is still very far from being expropriated their fighting today they have begun. On May 15 the thousands and thousands that populated the Plaza expressed these new conditions imposed by the whip of the capital. Reformism was left without sustenance. The bourgeoisie broke the class collaboration and the French working class presents battle. It was necessary to be at the level of these new conditions.

In the Square we could not but tell what any conscious Socialist cannot be silent about: that we had reached the heart of the imperialist powers, where a part is concentrated of the 1% of parasites that exploits the 99% of the world, to say to young people and workers in struggle that they have to return to the cry of "THE ENEMY IS AT HOME!"

We arrived with the cry of Greece in 2008: "That Athens’ spark fire Paris!", but the question is that Athens is now controlled by the deadly trap of Syriza, which in the name of an alleged "left" has applied the worst plans of the Troika and Merkel, imposing a terrible blackmail to Greek workers.
As never before the unity and coordination have been put to the order of the day of the European working class, which is under a brutal and intense attack of imperialism. A common struggle and a all-European General Strike is the only thing that can open the way to stop the attack of the capitalists and defeat Maastricht’s imperialist Europe.

We were on May 15 in Paris. There new battles and clashes between antagonist classes are prepared. The eyes of the European working class are largely facing France. But French workers should look at their class brethren of Europe and the world if they want to win.

More than 100,000 Syrian and Maghrebi and Middle-Eastern refugees are in concentration camps in Europe and in Greece in particular. The French proletariat may not break the chains that oppress it unless it fights together with its class brothers of Europe to break the barbed wire fencing in concentration camps to liberate political refugees resulting from the wars fed by the own imperialist powers to crush the revolutions in the South of the Mediterranean and starve the people there.

Tens of thousands of refugees are in camps that have nothing to envy to the Warsaw Ghetto or to Auschwitz. So that 1% of parasites act that control the world. So they treat those who try to save their lives from real genocides that these parasites impose to enslave nations and their workers. In the square we could feel solidarity with the refugees. But it is not enough with a sense of solidarity. Workers have in their hands making this solidarity actual. They have trade unions and organizations of struggle. Students have their organizations by School, College and universities. And all have the same demand to fight for, in defense of 35 hours work-week. There is no more immediate task that trade unions and struggle organizations of the working class open borders to immigrants and refugees demanding papers for all and affiliating them and organizing them into trade unions and all struggle organizations of Europe.  Leaving refugees as beggars into the hands of the bourgeoisie, the UN, the NGOs, is to vote in advance for their enslavement, death or repatriation. "All of us are refugees!" should be the common demand throughout Europe.

And we arrived at the Place de la Republique. We spoke in it. We were moved we have the honor of being there who are trying to fight to unite the workers of the world with the French workers. We are proud to be alongside the French working class, with the youth of today that proclaims that "we are all vandals", paying a tribute to young immigrants of the cités that rose in revolt to the cry of "Every night we will make Paris a new Baghdad" in 2005.

We could not less than crave for being part in the rebel France for a new French May and shout very loudly to the world that the only solution for France, the European and world working class is to bring again the Paris Commune to be the spark that sets fire all over Europe.  

In the Plaza of the Republic we revolutionary shout loud and clear:

LONG LIVE THE SYRIAN RESISTANCE! STOP THE MASSACRE BY ASSAD, PUTIN, OBAMA, HOLLANDE AND NATO!

 

FREE REBEL YOUTH OF GREECE, GEORGE ABDALLAH, ALFON, PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS AND POLITICAL PRISONERS ALL OVER THE WORLD!  

OUT WITH THE IMPERIALIST MILITARY BASES FROM THE OPPRESSED NATIONS!  

DOWN WITH THE FIFTH REPUBLIC OF THE IMPERIALIST BUTCHERS! DOWN WITH MAASTRICHT, ITS BANKS AND TRANSNATIONALS! DOWN WITH THE 1% OF PARASITES!

LET’S BRING THE PARIS COMMUNE TO LIFE AGAIN!

LET'S EXPROPRIATE THE EXPROPRIATORS OF THE PEOPLE! As the miners in revolt in the Donbass: Let’s make come again USSR of the workers councils and soldiers, without Stalinist traitors that sold out the worker States!

OPEN THE WAY TO THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTION!
MAKE ‘68 FRENCH MAY COME AGAIN! MAKE THE CARNATIONS REVOLUTION COME AGAIN OF THE WORKMEN AND SOLDIERS OF PORTUGAL!  
THAT THE EUROPEAN PROLETARIAT COME AGAIN TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THE REVOLUTION!

The victory of the oppressed peoples and their great battles will have solution in the hands of the working class of the imperialist powers of Europe, USA and Japan. They have the possibility to cut the head of the snake of 1% of parasites that are sinking the entire civilization into the doldrums and barbarism.